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Strategic Collaboration: Wheel and b.well Connected Health have announced a strategic partnership to create a turnkey infrastructure for AI-native and consumer-driven healthcare experiences.Platform Integration: The collaboration integrates b.well’s consumer health data and access infrastructure with Wheel’s Horizon™ platform, which handles clinical delivery and nationwide clinician operations.Overcoming the Action Wall: The combined offering addresses the operational
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Atropos Health and Guidehouse Launch Point-of-Care Clinical Decision Support Solution
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Atropos Health and Guidehouse have launched a jointly developed clinical decision support (CDS) solution designed to operationalize real-world evidence (RWE) directly within clinical workflows.The Combined Offering: The solution pairs Atropos Health’s predictive modeling and evidence generation with Guidehouse’s commercialization, medical strategy, and market access expertise.EHR Integration: Built on predictive algorithms using real-world data, the platform embeds
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Parexel Launches ParexelAI Suite of Human-Led AI Services for Clinical Trials
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Parexel has introduced ParexelAI™, a proprietary suite of human-led AI services designed to accelerate clinical development operations.Quantified Efficiencies: The suite is already delivering a 50% reduction in site selection timelines, a 30% reduction in medical writing for Clinical Study Reports, and a 20% reduction in safety literature screening.Regulatory Acceleration: Through a strategic partnership with Weave Bio, Parexel is reducing Investigational New Drug (IND)
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KLAS 2026 EHR Market Share Report: Epic Gains as Oracle Health Faces Third Year of Losses
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The number of hospitals impacted by EHR purchase decisions dropped 40% compared to 2024 and nearly 50% compared to 2023, according to a new KLAS 2026 EMR Market Share report.Shift to AI: Health systems redirected capital toward technologies with immediate financial returns, specifically AI and operational efficiency solutions, rather than core EHR upgrades.Epic Dominance: Epic was the only vendor selected by large health systems (>10 hospitals) in 2025 and added 77
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IKS Health Acquires ARAI Solutions to Build Full Agentic AI Stack for Healthcare
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IKS Health has acquired ARAI Solutions, a provider of specialized artificial intelligence, to accelerate the development of a full agentic AI technology stack.The acquisition allows IKS Health to create its own efficient small language models (SLMs), reducing dependency on third-party AI infrastructure.ARAI’s contribution centers on a clinical knowledge infrastructure consisting of interconnected biomedical knowledge graphs based on peer-reviewed research.The integrated
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Chromie Health Raises $2M to Automate Hospital Operations via AI Agent “Dispatch”
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Chromie Health, a provider of AI-powered hospital management tools, has closed a $2M pre-seed round led by AIX Ventures.The company has launched Chromie Dispatch, an SMS-native AI agent that fills internal nursing shift gaps in under five minutes—a process that typically takes five hours manually.There is currently a waitlist of 750 hospitals seeking to implement the platform.Chronic nursing shortages and turnover are estimated to cost the U.S. healthcare system more than
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Carrot Fertility Expands Sprints AI Metabolic Program to Perimenopause and Menopause Care
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Carrot Fertility has expanded Sprints, its AI-native metabolic health program, to support women from perimenopause through post-menopause.The program addresses the metabolic disruptions caused by menopause, including shifts in insulin resistance, visceral fat, cholesterol, and blood pressure.The Education Gap: Over 80% of women do not feel informed about menopause support, while only 20% of OB-GYNs receive formal menopause training.AI-Native Personalization: Powered by
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2026 Locum Tenens Physician Report Reveals 41% of Physicians Now Have Locums Experience
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Physicians across the U.S. are increasingly rethinking how they practice medicine as career pressures mount at every stage, according to the 2026 Locum Tenens Physicians Report released this week by Weatherby Healthcare.Market Growth: The percentage of physicians currently working locum tenens has nearly tripled in a decade, rising from 5% to 14%.Mainstream Adoption: Nearly half of all physicians (41%) now have locums experience, doubling the rate from 2016.Burnout
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Medbridge Launches Outcomes Offering: Connecting Patient Care to Clinical Efficacy and Payment
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Medbridge has launched Medbridge Outcomes, an offering within its One Care platform designed to collect, measure, and submit patient-reported outcomes (PROs).The system aligns with CMS regulatory guidelines, helping rehabilitation and physical therapy organizations meet MIPS reporting and quality requirements.Data collection is embedded directly into existing clinical workflows to reduce the administrative burden on frontline staff and clinicians.The platform features
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1upHealth Deploys All CMS-0057-F Interoperability and Prior Authorization APIs Ahead of 2027 Deadline
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1upHealth has become the first interoperability solution provider to deploy all four APIs required by the CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule (CMS-0057-F) to its entire customer base.The deployment comes a full eight months ahead of the federally mandated deadline of January 1, 2027.Integrated APIs now live include Patient Access, Payer-to-Payer Data Exchange, Provider Access, and Electronic Prior Authorization.The 1up Console now provides real-time
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